HEMMINGS hammered home a spectacular winner 18 minutes from time to settle a close encounter at Recreation Park.

Ryan McCord had the ball in the net for Alloa but it was ruled out as the Wasps missed a chance to go third top.

Cowden boss Nicholl said: “Kane’s goalscoring ability is brilliant
and he’s thriving at this level. He’s doing a great job for us just now. Sometimes you get players who score and they can be a luxury but he’s not like that. He’s working hard.”

Daryll Meggatt almost gifted Cowden an early opener with a slack passback from the right that was intercepted by Hemmings.

But Wasps keeper Scott Bain – in his 100th appearance – clawed the striker’s angled shot round the post for a corner.

And after the interval it was rival keeper Thomas Flynn who kept Cowden in the reckoning with a superb one-handed save to flip over a 25-yarder from Kevin Cawley in 55 minutes.

But Hemmings broke the deadlock when he hammered a 10-yard shot in off the crossbar in 72 minutes.

Alloa’s misery intensified five minutes
later when McCord curled a low shot from the left corner of the box around Flynn and inside the right post – but was ruled offside.

Wasps boss Paul Hartley said: “It was
their defender who played it back so I think it was a fair goal and if we’d got a point I’d have been delighted.

“The better team won in terms of making chances. That was the worst we’ve been all season.”

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